Zebra

© Sybille Sterk 

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

A vintage illustration of a zebra cleaned up and mixed with bought resources. I love this idea of a zebra putting on a show. :D 

Available as prints, phone and tablet cases, T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and travel mugs, wall hangings and shower curtains, cushions and bags, duvet covers and stationary cards. Oh and mouse mats. :D Have a ball. Have a set. :D

Society6

Redbubble

Artflakes

Crated

and various others.

Some I made earlier...

 

Wild Thing. Commission. 

Medieval Girdle to be used as a prop for photographs. Commission. 1.43m long

 Bracelets, Presents.

Mobile, driftwood, wood, glass, vintage and new, and seed beads. Present.

Check out my Etsy shop, or request a commission. I am always happy to experiment and make new things. :D

Summers Past

© Sybille Sterk

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Some lavender from last year's summer. I loved the simplicity of it and played around with until it looked like a pinhole image.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

All available on Society6

Snow White

© Sybille Sterk

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We finally have a bit of snow even if Christmas (and therefore a chance of a White Christmas) is long gone.

This reminded me of Snow White. One of my favourite fairy tales.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

I See You

 I see you (Sammie)

I see you, too (Ollie)

© Sybille Sterk

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Both images were taken on New Year's Day. Our kittens first Christmas and New Year had to be celebrated with some timeless images. These were taken up close and it took me an hour and about 50 images to get these two, our kittens are just too fast and too easily distracted. They have been edited to cut them down to their 'essence'. The original images were colour but I preferred them in black an white as it gave them a timeless quality.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

Note: Cushion cases (without the inserts) prints (unframed and not stretched canvas) and everything else has free shipping on Society6 at the moment until Sunday, 13/01/2013 Midnight.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Pearls of Wisdom

© Sybille Sterk

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A photograph through the window by my computer. It's been raining and foggy or both for over a week now, with brief periods of sunshine.

The poem is my own and can be read here

another moment of 

stillness

that holds us
above the abyss

safe
for just this instant

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Ornamental

© Sybille Sterk

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I took images of the gates at Cherry Hinton Hall park on the way out from my 'park shoot'. I have a thing about cast iron work, especially the Victorian kind with its total attention to detail and love for organic shapes. This speaks to me of Victorian England and Jack the Ripper. All that's missing is the fog and blood spatter. LOL

  

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Note, Society6 currently has free shipping until Sunday.

If not now, when?

© Sybille Sterk

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

All my own images.

The photo was taken in Cambridgeshire (near Balsham) and edited in Photoshop with my own textures. The quote is from graffiti I saw on a chimney a while back. I always loved it.

I couldn't decide which version I liked better - colour or black and white, so I am posting both. I felt that each had a different message. For me the black and white image seems to come from a place of despair and the quote seems to be a last ditch attempt to save what can be saved, whereas the colour version seems to carry a feeling of excitement and the quote appears to be full of wonder.

What do you think? Which version do you like better?

Texture Packs Spring Offer

Special texture packs for post processing photographs or to use as textured backgrounds for digital art. You can buy the packs here (prices are detailed underneath each pack) or buy some of the textures individually on TextureVault, see info beneath each pack and samples at the bottom.

Until 31st of March 2012, 

buy 1 pack get the 2nd (cheaper one) half price.

To order, send me an e-mail for details - use the contact button on the right-hand side. Payment by PayPal only. Please detail which packs you want in your email and I get back to you with details.

Note: You can use the packs to process your (commercial) art, but you cannot resell the textures themeselves or create new textures using the textures from my packs.

 Brandnew, also available on TextureVault as single textures.

Textures that have the feel of paper and canvas, complete with vignettes, crackles and other painterly textures.

$20 for 6 large high res textures.

Some of these textures are also available on TextureVault individually. You get 10 large mid res textures to add a grunge feel to your photographs or art.

$20 for 10 textures.

Some of these textures are also available on TextureVault individually. You get 12 large high res textures to add a soft grunge feel and colour to your photographs or art. The textures can be used several at the same time.

$20 for 12 textures.

Some of these textures are also available on TextureVault individually. High quality, high res textures to add a raised texture to your photograph, from handmade linen paper to embossed paper, to polkadots and a vintage frame texture. 

$25 for 10 textures

Exclusive to this blog. Ten textures with a romantic feel to add romance to your photographs and art. Use several of them together or use them individually to create something special.

$25 for 10 textures

Samples

 Original photograph

 Original photograph plus Arte Texture

 

Original photograph plus Black & White Grunge texture (and a couple of gradients to add colour).

 

Original photograph plus Floral Grunge texture (and a vignette).

  Original photograph plus Handmade Paper texture (and a vignette).

Original photograph plus Romance texture and colour gradient.

Original photograph and several of the textures from different packs plus vignette.

The End of All Hope - Photo Manipulation

 

 

 

This is my part of a collaboration in a dptych for Mission Monday on Rebdbubble

Check out the collaboration here

 Check out Mieke's fab image here

It was quite a challenge, and one I enjoyed immensely. I love Mieke's atmospheric photograph and it was great to have to think of something to go with it and it was fun creating a completely new image to go with the mood and atmosphere in Mieke's image. It was also a big challenge for me to keep it black & white (okay, okay, I did apply a sepia photo filter), which must be a first for me.

Credits

Model

• Bells Falls5 by faestock

Backgrounds and Textures

• Stock 5 by UmbraDeNoapte-Stock
• frozen.. -pre- by arca-stock
• Da Vinci by SolStock
• dragon scales texture by GlamourousAcid-Stock
• Texture set 4 by anamcr
• background 6(background no longer available) by Sylwia77

Brushes

• Feathers BRUSHES PACK 1 by whynotastock
• Feather Brushes PS - 01 by silinias
• Feather Brushes 02 - PS by silinias
• Light Rays by spiritsighs-stock
• Grunge Edges by ro-stock

All other images/textures/stock/brushes my own.

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